Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service

Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service was paid $302K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSPEARFISH EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE
SPEARFISH, SD 57783

33aNPI1336130434assigned 10/30/2005

33bProvider typeSecured Medical Transport (VAN)

28Total paid$302K

24GClaims3,680

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Secured Medical Transport (VAN) providers in South Dakota

Rank by total paid#3 of 9

Median peer was paid$107K

This provider vs. median2.8×

Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider

By year, as a table

Year	Claims	Paid
2018	369	$31K
2019	450	$36K
2020	336	$25K
2021	671	$55K
2022	758	$49K
2023	592	$51K
2024incomplete	504	$55K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0427	Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)	65%	1,235	1,003	$195K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	28%	2,269	1,650	$86K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	7.1%	176	147	$22K

Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialHAMBEK, BRIAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)